Daryl Dolynny

The Minister of Health and Social Services has advised this House that his department is moving forward with Med-Response, a program that will give all the health centres and all the communities direct access to a physician to coordinate expediting of medevacs, which is going forward, as we were told, on April 1st of this year.

Clearly, the sick and injured in the Northwest Territories deserve better service than they are getting.

At the appropriate time, I will be asking the Minister of Health and Social Services questions about the status of this proposal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

When I read a passage where it says Section 47(3) it says the Commissioner in Executive Council, so that means that the Commissioner, our current Commissioner is working on behalf of the Cabinet or is it with the Cabinet? Is it independent of the Cabinet or is it Commissioner and Cabinet working collectively as one signatory? I need clarification on that.

I appreciate the explanation there. That does provide a bit more clarity, because I know that term has come up a couple times and I know Members have spoken on, so I want to make sure we’re talking about the same process between each act.

Lastly, under the part of royalties, it references the Commissioner and the Executive Council. Can we define what that position or who that person is, just for the record.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, welcome back to the Premier and team here. Just some clarification questions within this act, and I know that this is mirror legislation, and I know that we don’t want to delay implementation, but I need to understand a couple of things within this act a little bit more clearly. Within the act it talks about these exploration licences and the fact that there’s a waiting period and everything else. Do we have people right now currently waiting for this act to pass that are kind of sitting in stasis for an exploration licence?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’d like to welcome the Premier and devolution team here again today under the review of Bill 10.

Madam Chair, from what I understand, when bills are reviewed or legislation is reviewed both nationally or territorially or provincially, we look at things such as the imperial system that is used to describe certain things, whether it’s units of measure, units of land. This may be more of a small, technical nature, but I thought this was something possibly not picked up when we did the mirror legislation.

In Section 9, it talks about the disposition of Territorial lands and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Moses.

Through an amendment, the purpose statement was broadened to address the rights of patients to access, correct and protect their personal health information. The committee reasoned that patient rights should be treated on a par with the need for system efficiency. A comparison of purpose statements in other health-specific privacy legislation lent support to this view.

Stakeholders stated repeatedly that the act is difficult to understand. Unease about its complexity was widely expressed. Following the public review, the committee identified...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning Report of the Review of Bills 1, 2 and 3 and Other Legislation to Implement Devolution of Lands and Resources Responsibility to the GNWT.

The Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning is pleased to report on its reviews of Bills 1, 2 and 3, and comment on other legislation required to implement the devolution of lands and resources responsibility and associated revenue to the Government of the Northwest Territories and Aboriginal governments.

Collectively, this legislation marks an historic step in the evolution of...

Thank you. Will the Premier commit to developing an NGO support office similar to what we see with the BDIC, but which helps emergent NGOs get on their feet and address my earlier questions assisting existing NGOs streamline their operations and maximize their funding? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As a follow-up to my Member’s statement, I am gravely concerned that we’re not doing enough for our NGOs who provide critical services for the Northwest Territories. Further to this, our Executive website is now over a year old and provides no information for funding for the upcoming 2014-2015 fiscal year. We need a firm, renewed commitment from our government that sends a clear message to support our NGO sector. With that, I have questions today for the Premier.

Given the paired down Executive, which now has divested itself of devolution and the program review functions...

We should be providing services to assist emergent NGOs and to take a look at existing stable NGOs to see where there are overlaps in synergies, so we can assist these NGOs to streamline these operations and stretch our funding dollars.

This government has a responsibility to stop paying lip service to NGOs and to start to recognize NGOs as a valued and essential resource. It’s time the government stopped inadequate, piecemeal funding for services that are, by its own admission, critical to NWT residents.

It is time for the government to implement an integrated approach to working with NGOs in...